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Wednesday 30 November 2011
China solar firms with government support more likely to weather the current storm of low demand
Some China-based solar firms are expected to shutdown operations and exit the market due to low demand. Industry sources indicated the firms that are experiencing problems are those...
Wednesday 30 November 2011
China-based vendors launch inexpensive high-end smartphones to compete in home market
China-based handset vendors have been shifting from entry-level smartphones to models with high-level specifications but priced at a middle level for competition in the domestic market...
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Altek to set up lens firm in China
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek has decided to invest US$15 million to establish a subsidiary maker of aspherical plastic lenses and glass lenses in Kunshan, eastern China,...
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Acer will not give up netbook market, says VP
Commenting on the recent rumors that Korea-based Samsung Electronics will stop producing 10.1-inch netbooks in the first quarter of 2012, leaving the netbook market to the top-2 players...
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Liton Technology to expand formed aluminum foil capacity in western China
Liton Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of formed aluminum foil used to make aluminum electrolytic capacitors, will expand the production capacity at its factory in Sichuan Province,...
Tuesday 29 November 2011
PC vendors to see serious HDD shortages starting December, says Acer VP
As PC brand vendors' hard disc drive (HDD) inventory level will soon hit bottom, vendors will start experiencing HDD shortages in December and the problem will reach its peak in February...
Monday 28 November 2011
Tera Xtal to set up plant in China after merger with Alpha Xtal
Chien Fu Shieh, chairman of Taiwan-based sapphire substrate maker Tera Xtal, has said that after merging with Alpha Xtal on December 10, 2011, the company plans to set up a production...
Monday 28 November 2011
China LED lighting subsidy may be limited
Players in the LED industry may be disappointed as the China government's subsidy for their lighting products may be much smaller than anticipated.
Monday 28 November 2011
China-US solar trade war looming
Responding to the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations taken by the US government on China-based solar firms, the Ministry of Commerce in China has announced to initiate similar...
Monday 28 November 2011
Short lead-time orders from China buoying revenues for IC design firms
Taiwan-based fabless IC firms have received an influx of short lead-time orders from clients in China recently, according to industry sources. The pull-in of orders, mainly for smartphones...
Friday 25 November 2011
Digitimes Research: Greater China solar product price decreases slightly
The spot price of solar products in Greater China continued to show slight decreases his week (November 21-25) except the 125 mono wafers, according to Chihheng Liang, analyst of...
Friday 25 November 2011
Workers protest at Sunrex subsidiary in southern China
Notebook keyboard maker Sunrex Technology's subsidiary in Shenzhen, southern China, recently suffered a protest by workers complaining of long overtime demands, according to industry...
Friday 25 November 2011
China October mobile phone user base grows to nearly 964 million
There were 963.99 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of October 2011, growing 1.23% on month and 14.48% on year. 110.51 million (11.46%) were...
Friday 25 November 2011
China software revenues grow almost 33% in Jan-Oct 2011
China's software industry generated total revenues of CNY1,497.0 billion (US$230.6 billion) during January-October 2011, growing 32.9% on year, according to the Ministry of Industry...
Friday 25 November 2011
China market: E-book reader sales down sequentially in 3Q11, says Analysys
There were 295,200 e-book readers sold in the China market during third-quarter 2011, slipping 5.1% sequentially but rising 11.6% on year, according to Analysys International.